This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom; about the beginning and ending of love; teenage
After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity, and their children have long since fled for the catastrophes of
A brilliantly perceptive and moving novel, that announced Jonathan Franzen as one of our greatest living writers.One of the ten books – novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography – that make up ou